dolls' house

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See also: dollshouse and doll's house

English

Noun

dolls' house (plural dolls' houses)

  1. Alternative form of doll's house.
    • 1984, Elizabeth P. Bowen, Coop, Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 10:
      Rambling along meadow paths hidden by long grasses he spied a farmyard, where, looking for all the world like a dolls’ house, stood a little hen coop.
    • 2005, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, London: Arcturus Publishing Limited, published 2008, →ISBN, page 5:
      Inside, everything was so small that it was like a dolls’ house.
    • 2015, Abby Clements, chapter 1, in The Winter Wedding, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN, page 12:
      ‘You’re still playing with dolls’ houses?’ he’d said, laughing. ‘I thought you were a tomboy – I mean that’s what I liked about you. But I guess you’re girlier than I thought.’